Windows 10 Tip: How To Simulate a Middle-Button on a Touchpad

Rujna 27, 2017

Maybe, the middle-button on your mouse is less important than the left and right button but it still offers a lot. I am the fan of it and do use it a lot, especially to open links in a new tab when I am surfing the web. Ali, most of the touchpads don’t come with a middle button. Do I have to get used to it and abandon the middle button while I am on a laptop with a touchpad that only has left and right button?

How to simulate a middle-button in Touchpad

If the touchpad on your laptop is a what’s calledprecision touchpad, you can easily enable the middle-click in Windows 10.

Otvoren Settings, go toDevicesand clickTouchpad. You will see “Your PC has a precision touchpad” at the top of the menu on the right if you have one on your laptop.

Scroll down a little until you seeThree-finger gesturessection, click the drop-down menu underTapsand change the default Tap action to “Middle mouse button“.

Sada, all you need to remember is to use your three-finger to tap once on the touchpad when you need to mimic a mouse middle-click.

What to do if I don’t have a precision touchpad

If you are using one of the old laptops that don’t the modern precision touchpad equipped, the first thing to check is to go to Control Panel and check what the options you have under Synaptics touchpad setting or Pen and Touch settings.

If no luck, you may look a bit further and use a tool likeAutoHotKey. There isthis premade scriptthat simulates a middle-click when you press the left and right button at the same time.